I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.
My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.
Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.
For me 'Dune' was a dream - a big dream!
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
